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Gemma 4: 1,200% Improvement in Agentic Tool Use.

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Google's MoE model jumped from 6.6% to 86.4% on τ2-bench Retail for tool use. Math +330%, coding +175%. Runs at ~150 tok/s on consumer GPUs. Apache 2.0. The efficiency story here is the real news: 3.8B active parameters achieving Arena AI #6.

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